Besides, Waimea is actually green. The Grand Canyon can’t make that claim.

Waimea Canyon

It’s also black, brown, and red — black from the lava basalt that created the island, brown from exposure of the basalt to the elements, and red from the iron in the basalt that has since succumbed to erosion and oxidization.

Waimea Canyon

Here’s an example of Waimea Canyon really showing its colors:

Waimea Canyon

And now for today’s photo gallery of this magnificent canyon. Click on any image below the bring up the slide show.

Waimea Canyon

Waimea Canyon

Waimea Canyon

One last look back toward the canyon

Waimea Canyon

By the way, if you’re reading this and other material authored by me on The Destinary website, this post was not “Posted on (fill in the date) | By destinary” as they’ve been erroneously claiming; this material was in fact reposted. The Destinary have also been claiming the right to do so, without links back to the original and without full attribution (“by RDoug” and a nonworking link is not proper attribution) with a rather bizarre interpretation of U.S. copyright law in which they claim I’m responsible for changing my RSS feed settings so that they cannot skim my material for commercial purposes. That would make reading my blog less convenient for you, which I’m not willing to do. As such, I’ll be running this little diatribe on all travel related posts until they cease and desist, along with this: